Victor Hugo Quotes
Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
Quotes to Explore
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Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.
Claude Monet
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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
John Milton
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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
William Gurnall
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Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say, a novel by Dickens), ignoring outside stimuli while so engaged, preferring a single information stream, and having a high tolerance for long focus times. Hyper attention is characterized by switching focus rapidly among different tasks, preferring multiple information streams, seeking a high level of stimulation, and having a low tolerance for boredom.
N. Katherine Hayles
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
Arthur Helps
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
Erica Jong
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We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world.
Bill Murray
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Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.
Cenk Uygur
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I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.
Zac Efron
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Destination Kampala! Africa’s postcolonial renaissance.” There would have been few other places in the world where there was such an excitement about new literature, new ideas, and new politics. The inspiration arrived at this conference for a new publishing imprint of literary titles called the African Writers Series, which was soon launched by Heinemann in the U.K., with Achebe as the series editor. The excitement reached as far as my high school in Dar, where literary competitions were held, new drama was produced, and a parade of literary luminaries passed through, including Chinua Achebe.
Moyez G. Vassanji
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
Victor Hugo
